Pauline Wiltshire: Education, Reading and Writing “I have somewhere to go, something to become, and something to show the world” (70). Pauline’s memoirs were encouraged by an adult …
Isaac Gordon (b. 1927): Reading and Writing “When I go to work and I sit down and see everyone reading paper and I cannot read it, …
Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984): Reading and Writing Part 2 ‘Nobody supervised my reading, at this time. But it didn’t matter. There was no time to read’ (31). As discussed in my …
Dora R. Hannan (1909-2001): Reading and Writing “I loved to curl up in the fireside corner with a book, I could read before I went to school, and there …
Reading & Writing ‘There must be a bullet hidden away here somewhere and I’d be making it if I had not already shot my bolt …
H J Harris (b.1903): Reading and Writing HJ went into the orphanage at age 3 and was there till the age of 14, so any reading that he …
Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Reading and Writing ‘Let me confess at once that I was drawn into the ranks of ‘P.T.’s’, not because I loved teaching, but because I …
Louise Shore: Reading and Writing To modern day readers, Louise Shore’s experience of reading and writing is hard to comprehend. Even as an adult Shore struggled with …
Minnie Frisby (b. 1877): Reading and Writing Early nineteenth century literacy was based on the ability to sign the marriage register. Education was a gift that was taken away …
Frank George Marling (1863-1954): Reading and Writing Frank mentions reading a few times throughout his memoirs. He does not write about great novels or poems that he enjoyed, like Dora …
